•Henry
Sweet, Wihelm Vietor, and Paul Passy formed the International
Phonetic Association in 1886 and developed the International
Phonetic Alphabet. The phoneticians involved in this
international organization, many of whom had also had experience
teaching foreign languages, did much to influence modern
language teaching by specifically advocating the following
notions and practices:
•The
spoken form of a language is primary and should be taught first.
•The
findings of phonetics should be applied to language teaching.
•Teachers
must have solid training in phonetics.
•Learners
should be given phonetic training to establish good speech
habits.